But I still didn’t have any answers. According to the “experts” though, I was “fine.”

My pain got worse. I started to experience testicular torsion, which is like having a brick tied around the muscles behind your scrotum. ALL THE TIME. I couldn’t even train myself. I Front Squatted an empty bar for 3 reps and that completely wiped me out. I had to lie down in the gym’s office for 2 hours before I could muster up the strength to stand again.

I put on 40 lbs.

Wait, it got worse.

The pain kept me up at night. I suffered from insomnia for the rest of that year. I was pissed and I was starting to give up hope.

That’s when I met my mentor, Mike Zhao.

20 minutes. My hip pain was gone.

I stood up from the drill and the room had gotten larger. I felt heavier in my heels but lighter in my torso. I recognized that I had been carrying all this tension in my body because for the first time in YEARS, it was GONE.

I asked him how he did that.He literally threw a Neuroscience textbook at me & told me to “get to work.”

The brain runs the show when it comes to movement. I felt like I was back at MIT, drinking water from a fire hydrant.